Pleasant memories of the brutal constructivism of the sports complex and how, in collaboration with media project Tonoptik, I stunned the square of one of the largest sports facilities in Europe with art.

Exhibitions:

Light festival, General Sport Complex, St. Petersburg

The installation “Percept” aims to reveal the deep relationship between living nature and modern man. Technological development has allowed us to subdue the world around us. But it is difficult to deny the depth of the reverse impact that nature has on us. Combining technology and wildlife, the artists offer viewers to explore the sense and psycho-emotional perception of natural images in a new artificial environment. “Percept” combines art, technology and natural phenomena, creating an unusual sensory experience.

Exhibitions:

“Forms of movement” festival, Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg

This is a teaser of a theatre performance at the Opera Festival (a detailed description of which you will find below). The performance involved actors, dancers and a choir led by me. I acted as a composer for this theatre performance. This teaser is also like a separate art work. I also wrote the music for it on purpose.

Exhibitions:

DIGITAL OPERA 2.0l, The Hermitage Theatre, Saint Petersburg 2019

What happens to the audience under the influence of our installation.

The project in collaboration with the Tundra vodka brand was conceived as an interactive photo zone at a music festival in the ArtPlay space (St. Petersburg).

The photo platform we created changed textures, color and sound when a person stepped on streams of its light. We, like the Tundra brand, pursued the goal of many photos against the background of the brand.

But everything went differently.

People occupied the entire installation with themselves and their interpretations. Rarely did anyone stop for a photo against the background of the installation, more often the guests tried to express themselves in motion. Then, drinks were brought (and of course cocktails with Tundra vodka), crowded on the cool floor in the projection illuminated from the darkness of the huge hall of the plant, someone guessed to drag bean-bag chairs from the neighboring halls of the festival. The guests of the festival found in our installation a corner of solitude and unity, they transformed the photo zone into a lounge zone, a zone of art and creativity.

Whether it was under the influence of the movement of complex structures, floating sound or festival amusements, one can only guess. The main thing is that the interactive turned out to be so deep.

Exhibitions: Art festival, ArtPlay, St. Petersburg

Interactive audiovisual installation MediaLab was created in 2015 by Tonoptik collective, whose members: Alexander Inkov, Yury Gorbachevskiy and Yury Tolstoguzov - set the task of creation, by means of multimedia technologies, a new experimental environment for human interaction with the people around or with the environment in which he is located.

Installation represents a round interactive table for four participants, each of whom can use two controls. Due to the special sensors which are built in these controls and that measure distance to the nearest object, it is possible to interact by moving hands in the range from 4 to 30 centimeters above them in the vertical direction. Thus, participants can manage some kind of virtual sliders that affect an interactive model of the installation which, due to algorithms used, not only has a unique visual, but also three-dimensional sound modulation that is implemented by means of a multichannel sound system. At the same time, each of the participant has a such model which only he can influence, thus, performing a certain part in the general action. As a result, anyone can take an active part in the creation of collective work, which is an audiovisual composition.

One of the main goals of this work is to provide a tool for a new kind of communication between people, as well as a demonstration of how this communication takes place. Interaction with the installation is a kind of model for cooperation within our society, in which we can trace the social processes flowing. Suppose there is a certain set of tools that participants can use together. First, no one knows how it all works, so that the result of collective work looks like chaos, but after gaining some experience, over time, the participants begin to feel each other, to negotiate, in other words, a self-organization is occurring. Thus, the installation is a platform for experimentation and research culture of communication within our society. Using this you can see whether the participants tend to collective self-organization, how they are willing to work together, how creative they are. The installation takes the personality and character of each participant within the context of the overall interaction, changing under his influence, creating thereby a unique audiovisual picture.

Exhebitions:

· “Prostranstvovanie” exhibition 2018, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology, St. Petersburg

· MADATAC festival 2017, MADATAC festival, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

· OpenLook festival 2015, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Kristina Petukhina is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, technology, and visual art. Her projects explore ecological, social, and technological crises through digital sound, creating immersive audiovisual environments for rethinking our relationship with the world.
With an academic background in classical music (violin), Kristina has performed in grand orchestras as a second violinist and participated in diverse musical projects. Raised in African-American musical traditions, she blends acoustic and synthesized sounds with ethnic and noise textures in her live performances.
As a sound artist and independent researcher, she experiments with immersive soundscapes, algorithmic structures, and digital opera. Her performative practices combine body movement, live sound, artificial intelligence, and visual storytelling. She is part of the media project Tonoptik and teaches theory-in-practice at Music Shho, developing individualized learning approaches to music theory, composition, and performance.
Kristina’s works have been featured at international media art and sound festivals, including The New Art Festival (Lisbon), SKIF (Kuryokhin Center), Rome Art Experience, and Signal Festival, where she also participated in an artist residency and performed a live audiovisual set. She is a recipient of digital art awards, a residency participant, and a finalist at major experimental film festivals.
In her recent projects, such as Inversion (The Sound of Isolation) and Orfeo Glitch, Kristina explores the integration of noise, musical composition, and digital technology to develop new forms of sonic and spatial perception.
In recent years, she has expanded her practice by studying neural networks (AI), the Python programming language, and Pure Data, seeking new ways to address issues of sound ecology through technology.